ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,838, issued on June 3, was assigned to DAICEL Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Dispersion medium for metal particle sintering, and electroconductive paste" was invented by Takanori Kobatake (Tokyo), Katsuaki Suganuma (Suita, Japan) and Shuhei Takata (Suita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a dispersion medium for metal particle sintering that gives an electroconductive paste whereby metal particles are satisfactorily sintered at a low temperature even when not in a reducing atmosphere, and an electroconductive paste in which the dispersion medium is used. The dispersion medium for metal particle sintering according to an embodi...